Jay, how much control would I have over how the groups are formed - i.e. could they be based on rating? On some other factor unrelated to chess.com (these would be friends of mine and their friends - I might want to set it up by age, or who knows who, etc.)? That might determine whether I go ahead an upgrade..

Of course, we always consider all feature requests from all our users. We would just have to think about how many people might use it, if it exposes any potential cheats, how usable a feature would be, etc etc. The built in algorithm simply orders everyone by rating, and places them into groups in descending order.

We don't have a bracket system here at Chess.com at all. What I was saying was that if ours was a bracket, and we put people into groups the way we do (#1 player goes into group 1, #2 player goes into group2, etc etc), then #1 and #2 WOULD face each other in the 2nd round. However, because its NOT a bracket system that we're running, #1 and #2 WONT play each other in round 2, they'll be regrouped according to rankings and dispersed into separate groups.

This stat is found in my turned base chess page, maybe you could allow only people who lets say less then 3hrs in one and less then 6hrs in the other, that way slow people play with slow people and fast people play with fast people.

I know I play more then a move a day and most of my games last less then a week....

This stat is found in my turned base chess page, maybe you could allow only people who lets say less then 3hrs in one and less then 6hrs in the other, that way slow people play with slow people and fast people play with fast people.

I know I play more then a move a day and most of my games last less then a week....

we just launched a feature to allow tournament directors to limit by time per move!

I dont know about this, but lets say I set my max games at ten, and allow friends to challenge me and say now I have 14 games going on, if I register in a tournament and and it starts, would the tournament games show up?

Maybe there should be an option for allow firends and allow for tournament games...

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